The State of Ruby VMs — Ruby Renaissance

igrigorik writes "In the short span of just a couple of years, the Ruby VM space has evolved to more than just a handful of choices: MRI, JRuby, IronRuby, MacRuby, Rubinius, MagLev, REE and BlueRuby. Four of these VMs will hit 1.0 status in the upcoming year and will open up entirely new possibilities for the language — Mac apps via MacRuby, Ruby in the browser via Silverlight, object persistence via Smalltalk VM, and so forth. This article takes a detailed look at the past year, the progress of each project, and where the community is heading. It's an exciting time to be a Rubyist."

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Re:Ruby Javascript

[Mystra_x64]

Javascript is awesome just the way it is

That's rather amusing way to say it sucks.

Re:Ruby Javascript

[FlyingGuy]

There is nothing wrong with Python that a block closure character wouldn't cure; but sadly the fucking IDIOTS who decided that a fucking INDENT aka a TAB is proper for a block closure more then deserve the scorn that has been heaped upon them and if I ran the Epiphany project I would have done the same but I am sure they did what they did for a myriad of other reasons.

When the language gets a block closure character I will actually look it it's utility, until then it goes on the scrap pile.